The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
This chapter discusses American agriculture and explores the contextual gridwork on which transformation from traditional to industrial agriculture hung in the period of 1920s. The sheer diversity of landscapes and climates in America, as well as the diversity of crops, livestock, and humans, discredits the idea of a monolithic American agricultural aggregate. The chapter discusses the great diversity of American rural landscapes and the farm products that came from them, as well as their amenability to the industrializing push. It examines the role of World War I in destabilizing both farm production and rural expectations, and also the intriguing and ultimately irresistible attraction of new factories and businesses that promoted rational management and mechanization and seemed a fitting model for agriculture.
Keywords: farm fields, American agriculture, rural landscapes, farm products, farm production
Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
